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Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas?

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On Mar 30, 3:49 pm, Sheldon England <sheldonengl...@netscape.net>
wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> About a month ago I started noticing an intermittent graphics glitch
> that is occurring regularly now.
>
> Win XPSP3 with ATI Radeon HD 5870 Vapour-X 1 Gb
>
> The gitch first appeared on the team menu when playing World of Tanks.
> Weird vector lines would shoot off the text characters in all
> directions, flashing and flickering, but only on the menus where there
> is text. Once the game loads there is no problem with the graphics, only
> the menu, so I assumed maybe a font or text rendering issue.
>
> A couple weeks ago I noticed this was happening on a few other game
> menus (Saboteur, Fallout New Vegas) though World of Tanks is still the
> worst. It doesn't happen on all game menus.
>
> However, I also noticed that when watching WMP movies and in some games
> (Fallout New Vegas) I am seeing a "noise" effect. Little flickering
> patches of dots all across the screen in patches. A perfectly black
> screen also has these little "noise" static patches, usually purple.
>
> My driver is current. Even updated my Catalyst Control Centre. The
> machine and card have been stable for almost a year and this just came
> out of the blue.
>
> It makes me sad.  :(
>
> Anyone have any guesses as to what could be happening?
>
> Thanks in advance. Sorry for the cross-post.
>
>    - Sheldon

Sounds like a hardware issue to me, especially since you described
that the problem is degenerative. Software doesn't really do that. Are
you in warranty? I'd get a replacement.

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Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-03-30 15:49 -0700
  Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> - 2011-03-30 17:12 -0600
    Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 21:46 -0400
  Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? yaugin <yaugin@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 18:44 -0700
  Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> - 2011-03-31 03:10 +0100
    Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-04-01 13:14 -0700
      Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? "Lou" <Nospam@nospam.net> - 2011-04-01 22:40 -0700
    Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-04-04 11:44 -0700
      Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> - 2011-04-04 17:10 -0600
        Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-04-05 11:00 -0700
          Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-04-05 15:11 -0400
            Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-04-06 11:48 -0700
              Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-04-07 12:17 -0700
                Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? Legion@Invalid.com - 2011-04-08 00:42 -0400
  Re: Weird Graphics Glitch - Any Ideas? "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> - 2011-04-09 02:38 +0100

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